 Estimation of time-varying average treatment effects using panel data when unobserved fixed effects affect potential outcomes differentlyShosei Sakaguchi Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 146, issue C, 82-84 Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach to estimate the time-varying average treatment effect using panel data to control for unobserved fixed effects. The approach allows identifying the average treatment effect on the entire population, even if the fixed effects affect potential outcomes under treatment and no treatment differently, which can cause heterogeneity in treatment effects among unobserved characteristics. Note that a popularly used standard difference-in-differences approach can only identify the average treatment effect on the treated. Moreover, the proposed approach allows time-varying treatment effects. The approach exploits panel data with a specific structure in which the treatment exposure expands to the entire population over time. I apply the proposed approach to estimate the effect of the introduction of electronic voting technology for the reduction of residual votes in Brazilian elections. Keywords: Program evaluation; Panel data; Fixed effects; Difference-in-Differences; Average treatment effects (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:146:y:2016:i:c:p:82-84 DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.07.021 Access Statistics for this article Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier |
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